10-Letter Words Starting with P

PEDIMENT a triangular architectural part

Pedology

""Soil the branch of medical science that studies the physical and psychological events of childhood. ; pedologist , ; pedological , adj . Children""

Pedophile

""A sexual perversion in which children rather than adults most strongly excite sexual desire, and are used as sexual partners.""

PEDOPHILE A person who has pedophilia.

Pegmatite

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pegmatite; as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite. as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite.""

A disparaging word, such as poetaster.

Politically incorrect, in a way

Expressing contempt or disapproval

Pellagrin

PELLETISE

Pelletise

PELLETIZE

PELLETIZE

Pelletize

How translucently clear Pelly comes over all lucid

Transparently.

Putting at an unfair disadvantage

Penality

Penalize

Penciling

Pencil

Pendency

The portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola.

Peneplain

Things kept secret

Innermost parts

A plural of penicillium .

Sir Alexander Fleming discovery of 1928

Fleming's discovery

Sir Alexander Fleming's antibiotic

Insure plan (anagram)

Writer, inward-looking, from Iberia

Sticking out, in a way

Theme of this puzzle

Michigan's Upper and Lower

Penitence

With remorse.

Calligrapher's craft (wordplay)

Calligrapher's vessel (wordplay)

Calligrapher's craft?

Penology

Prison warden

""Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as, pensionary spies. as, pensionary spies.""

Retired employees

Retired folk.

Some retirees

Pension

Having five haploid sets of chromosomes.

Like the scale C-D-E-G-A-C

Description of scale that could be found in ancient pot

Pentoxide

Penultima

Peperomia

Source of menthol

Sweet flavoured with aromatic oil

Ingredient in many Christmas desserts

Pepperoni

The antecedent of the ferment pepsin. A substance contained in the form of granules in the peptic cells of the gastric glands. It is readily convertible into pepsin. Also called propepsin. propepsin.

Peptidase

Percaline

Perceiver

Perceive

99th, for example

Any of the 99 numbered points that divide a set into 100 equal parts

Understanding 'the knowledge'

Softly creep into dances for view

It's said to be reality

Observant look about Catholic woman virtually in retreat

Showing acute insight

Percuss

Striking group of musicians (wordplay)

Instruments played by striking

Striking supersonic travelling

Operated by striking

Of significant impact

Perdition

Peregrine

Pereiopod

Dandelion, daisy et al.

Long-life-cycle plants

Tulips and dahlias

Making flawless mint and gin cocktail

For each infection, dropping in is ideal

What "none must hope to find": Pope

High price often reveals excellence

""Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; usually followed by of. of.""

Deceitful, untrustworthy

Outwardly devout, nameless friend turned treacherous

Having the basal part produced around the stem; said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.

Rendering half of period building

On with pet irritant: member of circus in much reduced circumstances

Perfusion

Pl. pericardia (-d - ) The membranous sac filled with serous fluid that encloses the heart and the roots of the aorta and other large blood vessels.

Pl. pericrania (-n - ) The external periosteum that covers the outer surface of the skull.

Pericycle

PERICYCLE

Rock containing olivine

Perigyny

""Having the ovary free, but the petals and stamens borne on the calyx; said of flower such as that of the cherry or peach.""

PERIHELIA

Orbital position nearest the sun

Orbit point closest to the sun

Old MacDonald had an orbit's closest point...

PERIKARYA

""Pl. perikarya (-k r - ) The cell body of a neuron, containing the nucleus and organelles.""

PERILOUS dangerous

Perilymph

Outward boundaries.

Outer limits

Boundaries

""The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a muscle, and sends partitions inwards between the bundles of muscular fibers.""

""Pl. perineuria (-n r - , -ny r -) The sheath of connective tissue enclosing a bundle of nerve fibers.""

Time, for one

Newsstand purchase, perhaps

Time, perhaps, for police raid

Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.

The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests all bones except at the articular surfaces.

Sudden turn of events

Unexpected turn of events, as in a literary work

Unexpected turn of events, especially in a literary work

Peripety

Minor computing device (wordplay)

To the side

Quiet goddess in jeopardy on the fringe

""Sessile organisms, such as algae and small crustaceans, that live attached to surfaces projecting from the bottom of a freshwater aquatic environment.""

""Sessile organisms, such as algae and small crustaceans, that live attached to surfaces projecting from the bottom of a freshwater aquatic environment.""

Periplast

Kind of peepholes

U-boat features

Viewing on all sides

Destroy a rebel ship - it could go off!

Herbal pies (anagram)

(Of food) likely to rot

Peristome

Colonnades with elegance surrounded by fairies

""Pl. perithecia (-sh - , -s - ) A small flask-shaped fruiting body in ascomycetous fungi that contains the ascospores.""

Of or pertaining to the peritoneum.

Membrane lining the abdominal cavity

Serous membrane lining abdominal organs

Gut sac where eruption has me bothered

PERIWIG a wig

Tiny seafood item - purplish-blue shade

Plant with five-petalled flowers

*Edible sea snail

PERJURE to make a perjurer of

Passing into every part of

Spreading throughout

Diffusing through

A mere point about saturation

PERMEATE to spread through

""A topical insecticide, C 21 H 20 CL 2 O 3 , used to treat head lice and nits, scabies, and various species of ticks.""

Noun (-age)

Wrong "impression" (wordplay)

How astronauts are paid (wordplay)

Wrong 'impression' (wordplay)

Liberal by letter (wordplay)

A girl I have that's free with favours

Not doing much disciplining

Permittee

Permitter

Permit

Destructive and harmful

Having a harmful effect to roughly ruin copies

Ruinous for an intellect around here in France

Over-particular

Fussily pedantic

Finical

Perorate

An allowance of twisted rope, in a manner of speaking

""(Earth Sciences / Minerals) a yellow, brown, or greyish-black mineral form of calcium titanate with some rare-earth elements, which is used in certain high-temperature ceramic superconductors [named after Count Lev Alekseevich Perovski (1792-1856), Russian statesman]""

Any of a group of enzymes that occur especially in plant cells and catalyze the oxidation of a substance by a peroxide.

Peroxide

""A cell organelle containing enzymes, such as catalase and oxidase, that catalyze the production and breakdown of hydrogen peroxide.""

Perpend

In this is forever

Time without end

In(de)finite duration

Very strange

Discombobulating

With a little preparation back then, the French crossing was puzzling

Bewilderment

Complication.

Bewilderment.

Bonus for each is accepted by all

Bonus or fringe benefit

Incidental or casual benefit

Light-hearted banter

Pale griefs (anagram) - flippancy

Chaff by itself to ingest if idle

Yellow-orange Japanese fruits

How mattress salespeople are paid (wordplay)

Unrelenting - prettiness (anagram)

Keeping at it

Prettiness that's rendered enduring

Persister

Continuing to exist

For every warmish season one's wrapped up, might one be so (wordplay)

Persuade

School of thought

Conviction of Janeites

With which 1 convinced

Very convincing, as an argument

Providing sound reasoning

Supervise a review that is influential

Connected (to)

Belonging (to).

What a non sequitur lacks

Relevance

Aptness

Relevance

Perturb

Pervasion

Kinkiness for every type

Aberrant behavior in each account

For every translation contains something irregular

Wilfully contrary nature

Priest very disposed to obstinacy

Tending to pervert.

Pervert

Pessimism

French "existentialist" types

Glass-half-empty types

Films by spies worried prophets of doom

Pesticide

Plague - lent pieces (anagram)

Deadly epidemic disease

Fatal epidemic disease

Petalody

Petiolule

PETITE a clothing size for small women

Made a request.

Formally requested.

Collected names

Plaintiff makes appeal to HM

One with a suit may give tip to Ernie

One collecting autographs

Petnap

Converting organic material into fossilised form

PETROL to supply with petrol (gasoline)

Frilly underskirts

They're worn to give a different aspect to it

""PHAGOCYTE A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.""

See Phallism. Phallism.

Phantasy

Shatter a thespian's illusions

Caprices, fancies

Spectral tailless rodents seen by parking area in southern county

Eerie

""The notions, doctrines, and conduct of the Pharisees, as a sect.""

Pharmacy

Help with the harvest (wordplay)

Person filling prescriptions

Dispenser of drugs

PHATIC sharing feelings rather than ideas

Phelonion

""A white crystalline compound, C 18 H 22 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its hydrochloride as a local anesthetic in ophthalmology.""

See acetophenetidin .

Phenacite

Phenakite

Phenazine

PHENOTYPE

Phenoxide

Phenytoin

* It's not some guy's name

Puts it about a bit

*Plays around (4 & 6)

Drunken hack almost lit pile of stamps

Relating to postage stamps

For stamp collectors

Tirades delivered after man snaps

Queen Elizabeth's social media uploads (wordplay)

Conservative in battle's making bitter speeches

Goliath, for example

Opponent of progress.

Person indifferent or hostile to culture

A philosophaster; a philosopher.

Ideology from Berlin (wordplay)

Thinking of Socrates (wordplay)

Pursuit of truth and understanding

Philter

Being thus makes the GP calm, I fancy

Precarious plight came without emotion

Calm on pitch with game left in the air

Phlegmy

""Of or pertaining to phlogiston, or to belief in its existence.""

Substance once believed to be released in combustion

Mechanical ram restricts hot billet of proposed element

""A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronzered or copperlike color and a pearly luster. It is a silicate of aluminia, with magnesia, potash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See Mica. Mica.""

Phonation

PHONEME a unit of speech

Utilize yon phallic characters in a sound way

Phonolite

Pl. phonologies The study of speech sounds in language or a language with reference to their distribution and patterning and to tacit rules governing pronunciation.

""Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus, phosphoric acid, or phosphates; as, phosphatic nodules. as, phosphatic nodules.""

Phosphide

Phosphine

Phosphite

The acid in Coca Cola

Relating to a particular element

PHOTIC pertaining to light

Sensor in a CD player

Liable to be shot (wordplay)

Pretty as a picture (wordplay)

Welcome adjective for screen hopefuls.